Disgrace

Disgraceis the condition of having lost or being out of favor, regard, or respect, or of being dishonored, or covered with shame. An event is called a disgrace if it brings dishonor, or causes shame or reproach.

Quotes

• Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton,Richelieu(1839), Act IV, scene 1.

• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
  • Edmund Burke,Reflections on the Revolution in France(1790).

• The man that gloats over another man's disgrace and thinks himself raised indignityby it, is unworthy of futurebliss.
  • Genesis Rabbah1,Tales and Maxims from the Midrashby Rev. Samuel Rapaport, (1907), p. 58-59

• And wilt thou still be hammering treachery, To tumble down thy husband and thyself From top of honour to disgrace's feet?
  • William Shakespeare,Henry VI,Part II(c. 1590-91), Act I, scene 2, line 47.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported inHoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations(1922), p. 197.

• Could he with reason murmur at his case,
  Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
  • William Cowper,Hope,line 316.

• Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.
  • That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.
  • Phaedrus,Fables,III. 11. 7.

• Hominum immortalis est infamia;
  Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.
  • Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
  • Plautus,Persa,III. 1. 27.